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From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and =?iso-8859-1?Q?GB?=
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On 20011222 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>Followup to:  <200112220214.fBM2EsSr022402@svr3.applink.net>
>By author:    Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
>In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>> 
>> So, the English units were more attuned to nature.  The only thing
>> natural about base ten is that the majority of us have 10 fingers and
>> 10 toes.
>> 
>
>And all of us count that way.  Oh yes, the English unit is *so*
>attuned to nature... this is why we have different measures for dry
>volume, wet volume... avoirdupois versus troy weight... oh yes, energy
>is measures in BTUs and power in horsepower... what is the conversion
>factor between them (it has the dimension of time?)
>

And different length for sea and land 'miles'. Very natural...

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